- Visual computing is pretty heavily used, unreal engine, blender, houdini, etc. All have a very similar node based visual programming system. It seems to work pretty well (better than text) for most of what they use it for. I think because of the ease of jumping in the middle and making small understandable changes.
- Many programming languages today have a format that is like <tree of files, each containing> <set of items, each containing> <list of expressions>. It would be nice if that <set of items> step was treated as an unordered set instead of an ordered one, with editors having a better understanding of how to bring up relevant elements of the set onto your screen at the same time. Split pane editors, "peeking" in editors at code definitions, etc. hint at how this should work, but I don't feel like they do it as well as possible.
- Visual computing is pretty heavily used, unreal engine, blender, houdini, etc. All have a very similar node based visual programming system. It seems to work pretty well (better than text) for most of what they use it for. I think because of the ease of jumping in the middle and making small understandable changes.
- Many programming languages today have a format that is like <tree of files, each containing> <set of items, each containing> <list of expressions>. It would be nice if that <set of items> step was treated as an unordered set instead of an ordered one, with editors having a better understanding of how to bring up relevant elements of the set onto your screen at the same time. Split pane editors, "peeking" in editors at code definitions, etc. hint at how this should work, but I don't feel like they do it as well as possible.
- A small amount of "visual augmentation" might benefit most programming languages, I'm not sure I can explain this better than linking to a few images of what emacs auctex package does to latex http://lh6.ggpht.com/_egN-3IJO0Xg/SpIj6AtHOTI/AAAAAAAABj8/O1... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Emacs%2B...